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johnieb
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GenderMale
OccupationSeveral
LocationNew England
IntroductionGrandpa of leisure, sweet-tempered, charming, witty, vivacious, and intelligent: see blog.
InterestsU S History and Politics, Church History and Politics, Cooking, Wholeness, literature, even Great Literature at times, Music, the American South, & Other.
Favorite moviesBrazil, Casablanca, M, Battleship Potemkin, Jules et Jim, Amelie, Apocalpyse Now, Love, Actually, Wings of Desire, Like Water for Chocolate, Chocolat, Le Femme Nikita, Innocent Blood (so sue me), Chinatown, Reds, Monty Python, Bull Durham, Cradle Will Rock, Sin City, may I stop now?
Favorite musicMozart Messiaen, Bartok, Hopkins, Waters, Wolf, Medieval to Baroque, Chamber Music, Hank Williams, Sam Cooke, Emilylou Harris, Thelonius Sphere Monk, 'Trane, Bach, the Blues, the Clash, Duke Ellington, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry (obviously) and so on
Favorite booksCategories or topics or favorite writers include: Tim O'Brien, John Donne, Twentieth Century Wars in Indochina, Poetry, US reform movements in the 19th & 20th centuries, picture books, Flannery O'Connor, The Christian Tradition(s), History of Contemplation, Cooking, and occasional bits of theology, philosophy, or fiction. And, yes, Mama, the scriptures.

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